👻 Ghost

Copy and paste this emoji: 👻

Emoji Meaning

1

A playful cartoon ghost with outstretched arms, its tongue sticking out and friendly eyes — on some platforms one eye even bulges. It’s like it’s cheerfully shouting “Boo!”: a little spooky but mostly cute. This emoji is a go-to for trick-or-treat chats and Halloween.

2

Playful ghost emoji sporting a friendly face and a tongue sticking out. It's white with a thin, wispy tail—the classic cartoon ghost everyone recognizes.

This emoji is especially popular on Halloween, when people send each other greetings featuring all sorts of expressions and ghosts. It's often used as a quick stand-in for the word "creepy".

Also Known As

  • 👻 Disappear
  • 👻 Ghoul
  • 👻 Halloween

Apple Name

  • 👻 Ghost

Unicode Name

  • 👻 Ghost

👻 Emoji Codes

Codepoints

U+1F47B

Shortcodes

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For developers

URL escape code %F0%9F%91%BB
Punycode xn--9q8h
Bytes (UTF-8) F0 9F 91 BB
JavaScript, JSON, Java \uD83D\uDC7B
C, C++, Python \U0001f47b
CSS \01F47B
PHP, Ruby \u{1F47B}
Perl \x{1F47B}
HTML hex 👻
HTML dec 👻

Tags: creature, face, fairy tale, fantasy, ghost, monster

Category: Smileys & Emotion

Subgroup: Monsters & creatures